When twelve-year-old Cedar loses her dog, it sets off a chain of events leading her to find a new friend, become an acrobat, and learn some bitter-sweet truths about family, community, and herself.
Seventeen-year-old Mannie Clarkeson, a girl living in small-town Australia, leaves home in the middle of the night adorned in her mother's red silk evening gown and on a bicycle aimed toward Melbourne, but while she is looking to start a new life there are questions that need to be answered.
When twelve-year-old Cedar loses her dog, it sets off a chain of events leading her to find a new friend, become an acrobat, and learn some bitter-sweet truths about family, community, and herself.